Van Persie and Van Gaal have had a lovers tiff

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Fair enough. You clearly followed his Sevilla career closely, pal.

rafabio's had a right dunk here.

Originally Posted by vangaalsbigballs

Only going by reports pal. Spanish league is £#%&!ing £#%&! to watch for the most part

Nqat

Originally Posted by andyroo

rafabio's had a right dunk here.

You can get £#%&!ed.

hindsight is 20/20 but you have to remember we stormed to a european cup final in 2011 and as the big man at the time said; the only midfielders worth signing were already playing for barcelona.

We had pogba coming up, and this guy dominating a european cup semi final

Originally Posted by dunk

I'd have liked both, but CM had to be the priority if Money was tight. What we've seen since proved that.

There was plenty of money as shown this summer. Even this summer we just bought 1 CM...

Originally Posted by Lazlo Panaflex

hindsight is 20/20 but you have to remember we stormed to a european cup final in 2011 and as the big man at the time said; the only midfielders worth signing were already playing for barcelona.

We had pogba coming up, and this guy dominating a european cup semi final

Then boom. In the Europa League six months later iirc

Originally Posted by dunk

You can get £#%&!ed.

Originally Posted by Lazlo Panaflex

hindsight is 20/20 but you have to remember we stormed to a european cup final in 2011 and as the big man at the time said; the only midfielders worth signing were already playing for barcelona.

We had pogba coming up, and this guy dominating a european cup semi final

Gibson

Summer of 2012 everyone wanted the midfield strengthening. Only 1 or 2 wanted a striker, I was 1 of the few wanting a striker. The midfield situation was desperate though.

RvP was a tremendous signing in the sense that he papered over the cracks created by our shite midfield sufficiently to get us to the title, the cracks wouldn't have needed papering over in such fashion if the team had been properly fixed though and we wouldn't be going through the revolution now in such drastic fashion.

Originally Posted by vangaalsbigballs

There was plenty of money as shown this summer. Even this summer we just bought 1 CM...

or 2 if you include Blind and Herrera.

I'm not saying there wasn't, but if the RvP money was all there was to be spent, it could've been better used.

Originally Posted by dunk

or 2 if you include Blind and Herrera.

I'm not saying there wasn't, but if the RvP money was all there was to be spent, it could've been better used.

wouldn't have given the chance to arsenal and city fans though and to enjoy RVP...

Originally Posted by vangaalsbigballs

wouldn't have given the chance to arsenal and city fans though and to enjoy RVP...

He was brilliant that first season tbf. If he regains that form then he's first pick. Seems a hell of a long time ago now though, and he looks to be so much slower now

what a steaming pile of nowt

signing RvP was a no brainer at that price. we were desperate for a top class striker and it worked like a charm as we romped to the title.

this idea that we signed him instead of a midfielder or we signed him just to stop City signing him is utterly laughable. had Ferguson thought it absolutely essential to sign a midfielder then he would have done.

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

what a steaming pile of nowt

signing RvP was a no brainer at that price. we were desperate for a top class striker and it worked like a charm as we romped to the title.

this idea that we signed him instead of a midfielder or we signed him just to stop City signing him is utterly laughable. had Ferguson thought it absolutely essential to sign a midfielder then he would have done.

Well that's that then.

God has spoken.

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